Sword Girls is terrible. Simply terrible. Not only is it a really, really luck-based game (more so than any other card game I've ever seen, barring standard 52 card deck games like Poker), but it is also heavily influenced by the rarities of your cards, where rarer cards are just blatantly better. The craft system makes it feel like it takes months just to get a rare card, and the accessories are annoying to get, especially since exploring in those areas takes tokens to buy, which I believe you can't get any other way than paying and is also what you use for buying from boosters. Getting the materials from fighting makes it feel like a grind game, and you need to do it a whole lot just to get any kind of success, even for crafting more common cards.

Not to mention that the art of the cards is, simply put, bland. Even Visfarix, who was enthusiastic about the "Girls" part of Sword Girls said the same. When you keep seeing the same things (in this case, fanservice) over and over again, you get desensitized and it doesn't really feel that special anymore. Seriously, there's no variety in this aspect. Everywhere, you either see big boobs, loli girls or the high school girls deal. This is most likely their marketing strategy, but I can barely see anyone except creepy old people tolerating this.

Sorry about this rant, I just felt the need to vent myself.

TL;DR Sword Girls = not for me. I wish it disappears and I never wasted my time with it.

Well instead of taking care to have deeper strategy they only took care of stopping animation speed up through browser functions, the speed WHICH IS MANDATORY for that bloody game.

If they finally add the animation speed up function, then the games becomes playable again. Until then it's really unplayable, since you don't interact with the cards like in other card games, it's all automatic and brainless.

It being automatic isn't the problem. If the speed of the game would be greatly increased (maybe animations turned off) then the only issue that would remain is the fact that you see the same cards played over and over again! At least in other card games there is faction restriction and you see more variety, even then a bit repetitive.

skillll7 wrote:Sword Girls is terrible. Simply terrible. Not only is it a really, really luck-based game (more so than any other card game I've ever seen, barring standard 52 card deck games like Poker), but it is also heavily influenced by the rarities of your cards, where rarer cards are just blatantly better. The craft system makes it feel like it takes months just to get a rare card, and the accessories are annoying to get, especially since exploring in those areas takes tokens to buy, which I believe you can't get any other way than paying and is also what you use for buying from boosters. Getting the materials from fighting makes it feel like a grind game, and you need to do it a whole lot just to get any kind of success, even for crafting more common cards..

I WAS a rider on the Sword Girls bandwagon because of my contempt of Alteil at the time (I'm STILL ticked off at it and it has yet to regain my favor) but Sword Girls is the pits. I've stopped playing it for some time now cause of the INSANE crafting requirements, insane pricing and just utter unsatisfactory gameplay.

Players should recommend alteil to them in their forum or chat. Chances are they will be interested as they already play a niche TCG game. Also tell them that alteil has been running for over 5/10 years and is still going strong.

We could always do with more players. Even if it is only temporary and I am sure a good porportion will stay atleast for a good amount of time or games.